Moths in a human suit (they/them)
@lycomorpha.bsky.social
A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. MedSci escapee, always drawing or making paint. In my chaos-bisexual-enby-hag era. Moths, paint-making, disability, & art-related sh*t-posting. lycomorpha.etsy.com
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Bemused at all the people suddenly following me, so uhh.
Hi? Here's some things to know.
I swear a lot. If you're offended by words like wankspangled knobcockle, I'm not for you.
I post many moths & other bugs. I talk/yell about alt text, chronic life, pencils, & paint. I post paint-making a lot…
Hi? Here's some things to know.
I swear a lot. If you're offended by words like wankspangled knobcockle, I'm not for you.
I post many moths & other bugs. I talk/yell about alt text, chronic life, pencils, & paint. I post paint-making a lot…
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Just saw this fascinating thread, which is both Gothic and profoundly heartwarming 🖤
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
February 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Just saw this fascinating thread, which is both Gothic and profoundly heartwarming 🖤
It's a time to be alive, but an enby's gotta make a living… So I'm a bit absent here this week cos I'm restocking/updating my shop with all the things. So many things.
Normal swearing service will resume shortly.
Wanna know when my shop reopens? My mailing list is here: mailchi.mp/20162032d876...
Normal swearing service will resume shortly.
Wanna know when my shop reopens? My mailing list is here: mailchi.mp/20162032d876...
February 4, 2026 at 11:09 AM
It's a time to be alive, but an enby's gotta make a living… So I'm a bit absent here this week cos I'm restocking/updating my shop with all the things. So many things.
Normal swearing service will resume shortly.
Wanna know when my shop reopens? My mailing list is here: mailchi.mp/20162032d876...
Normal swearing service will resume shortly.
Wanna know when my shop reopens? My mailing list is here: mailchi.mp/20162032d876...
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Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Still could be worse, looking at the news. Makes accidentally calling someone's uncle a twatulent butt-walnut seem pretty mild I guess.
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Still could be worse, looking at the news. Makes accidentally calling someone's uncle a twatulent butt-walnut seem pretty mild I guess.
My optician cranked all my specs up a notch recently.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
February 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
My optician cranked all my specs up a notch recently.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
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You know a good giveaway that 'using whistles is disabilist' is not rooted in good faith or community care? I have seen no serious discussion about how to include Deaf/HoH folks in rapid notification. How are we quickly notifying targeted Deaf/HoH folks who can't hear whistles/shouts?
Don't think I don't notice that you are NOWHERE when disabled people are asking for your help and you just like to trot us out when it is convenient.
February 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
You know a good giveaway that 'using whistles is disabilist' is not rooted in good faith or community care? I have seen no serious discussion about how to include Deaf/HoH folks in rapid notification. How are we quickly notifying targeted Deaf/HoH folks who can't hear whistles/shouts?
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Refocus. It’s still survival for Nya & her family of eight, who remain displaced in a tent. Inattention means families go without, and it’s what the occupation wants from us.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Refocus. It’s still survival for Nya & her family of eight, who remain displaced in a tent. Inattention means families go without, and it’s what the occupation wants from us.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
That is some delightful alt text right there.
February 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
That is some delightful alt text right there.
I started outlining this tonight, rolling over the graphite with a putty eraser to lighten it & going over the outline with colour pencil.
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I started outlining this tonight, rolling over the graphite with a putty eraser to lighten it & going over the outline with colour pencil.
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
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Prompt list here!! Excited to see what you all make!
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
February 1, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Prompt list here!! Excited to see what you all make!
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
I got one of these pins for xmas and it's utterfuckingly delightful, can recommend!
My miniature tree identification pins are finally back in stock and the 2nd edition is better than ever! Please share them around so people can see 💚 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
February 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I got one of these pins for xmas and it's utterfuckingly delightful, can recommend!
Thanks mate! 💖
February 1, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Thanks mate! 💖
Decided to have a go at this prompt list since it's weekly. Gives me time to do a lil bit each day!
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Decided to have a go at this prompt list since it's weekly. Gives me time to do a lil bit each day!
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
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Paris Green was a pigment created in 1814 and was used by many artists at the time. It was also VERY dangerous because of it was full of arsenic! Here's a self portrait, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. He used Paris Green in the background.
February 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Paris Green was a pigment created in 1814 and was used by many artists at the time. It was also VERY dangerous because of it was full of arsenic! Here's a self portrait, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. He used Paris Green in the background.
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Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
February 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
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Congratulation to Alaya Dawn Johnson! Alaya's novelette “The Shadow on the Nest” is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading list! You can read it here! buff.ly/UAnjN1F
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Congratulation to Alaya Dawn Johnson! Alaya's novelette “The Shadow on the Nest” is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading list! You can read it here! buff.ly/UAnjN1F
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My chemistry degrees just began spontaneously weeping on the wall.
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
BEHOLD! The glyphosate-aluminum-fluoride complex! Found here:
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
February 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
My chemistry degrees just began spontaneously weeping on the wall.
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
Also, finding pics of the crabs at the Lyme Regis saltwater aquarium.
Tiny place, best crabs tho, would recommend. (No the county tourist board isn't paying me, this is just facts. Best. Crabs.)
Tiny place, best crabs tho, would recommend. (No the county tourist board isn't paying me, this is just facts. Best. Crabs.)
February 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Also, finding pics of the crabs at the Lyme Regis saltwater aquarium.
Tiny place, best crabs tho, would recommend. (No the county tourist board isn't paying me, this is just facts. Best. Crabs.)
Tiny place, best crabs tho, would recommend. (No the county tourist board isn't paying me, this is just facts. Best. Crabs.)
Small joys in a fkd up world:
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
February 1, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Small joys in a fkd up world:
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
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Well worth reading this piece.
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
![From the piece, on Sex Matters:
They celebrated with a letter to the CEO of NHS England demanding an end to gender affirming care, bragging that
"Children under the care of all gender services both NHS and private, must now be told that they will never be able to access spaces or services for the opposite sex, no matter what legal or medical steps they take now or in the future.
"Passing as the opposite sex ceases to be a desirable goal to present to children when they will never be permitted to use spaces or services for the opposite sex, and may in future be restricted in employment in roles such as police officer or nurse
"Instead it becomes a major, permanent social problem for those young people. We have always argued that it was unethical and a breach of human-rights principles to promise [young people] that they could intrude on other people's privacy, safety and dignity ... by using spaces for the opposite sex."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n4xnkejnt37mkg7td4vkzuxe/bafkreicm2mb5gp2vswrslaqb3agze3n42fzdvxuxtufg42btp6urkdqekm@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Well worth reading this piece.
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
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another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
a lot of new eyes this week.
hi, we're mox. we devote one day a week to trying to pay our bills. today is unfortunately that day.
if you are new, we do things differently than most. it's the only way that doesn't feel gross.
thank you. stay safe.
artbymox.shop/our-model
hi, we're mox. we devote one day a week to trying to pay our bills. today is unfortunately that day.
if you are new, we do things differently than most. it's the only way that doesn't feel gross.
thank you. stay safe.
artbymox.shop/our-model
January 31, 2026 at 5:44 PM
another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
Thanks mate 😁
January 31, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Thanks mate 😁
I'm not saying I've had a ridiculous amount of paintmaking on the go lately but uhh... Yeah.
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
January 31, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I'm not saying I've had a ridiculous amount of paintmaking on the go lately but uhh... Yeah.
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
Actually I should probably not mention the idea of any kind of solid gold cat accessories, even in jest... Just in case.
(Flatline is enough trouble already with his yowly demands for rotisserie chicken.)
(Flatline is enough trouble already with his yowly demands for rotisserie chicken.)
January 31, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Actually I should probably not mention the idea of any kind of solid gold cat accessories, even in jest... Just in case.
(Flatline is enough trouble already with his yowly demands for rotisserie chicken.)
(Flatline is enough trouble already with his yowly demands for rotisserie chicken.)